Secretary of the Treasury

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The theme of “Secretary of the Treasury” has been addressed by authors such as John Sherman, Mary Clemmer, United States. Presidents, Grover Cleveland and Portal:United States Congress. It is often associated with terms like states, government, department, revenue and public.

Quotes about “Secretary of the Treasury”

John Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House…

“ I do not wish now to cripple the industry of the country by adopting the policy of the Secretary of the Treasury, as he calls it, by reducing the currency, by crippling the operations of the government, when I think that under any probability of affairs in the future, all this debt will take care of itself. I believe that if the Secretary of the Treasury would do nothing in the world except simply sit in his chair, meet the accruing indebtedness, and issue his treasury warrants, this debt will take care of itself, and will fund itself at four or five per cent. ”

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Harriet Earhart Monroe, Washington, its sights and insights… (1903)

“ The Secretary of the Treasury superintends the collection and disbursement of all government revenue from every source, except the Post-Office Department. It takes many buildings to provide for the work of the Treasury Department. ”

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Carl Schurz, U. S. Senate Speeches and Remarks of Carl Schurz

“ I am willing to admit that the secretary of the Treasury, in reissuing part of the $44,000,000 reserve, acted in perfect good faith according to his own understanding of the law; and I am also willing to accept any possible excuse which, in that respect, can be made for him. ”

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William Amasa Scott, Banking

“ The Secretary of the Treasury is not in a position properly to exercise the power conferred upon him. He is outside the channels of commerce and industry, and must, therefore, secure at second hand the information necessary for intelligent action. ”

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Elisha Benjamin Andrews, History of the United States, Volume 2

“ Under the Articles of Confederation there had been a treasury board of
several commissioners, and a superintendent of finance. The new
arrangement, making one man responsible, was a great improvement. A law
was passed forbidding the Secretary of the Treasury to be concerned in
trade or commerce, that is, to be a merchant. ”

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William Henry Harrison, William Harrison's Inaugural Address (1841)

“ I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress. ”

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William McKinley, Fourth State of the Union Address (1900)

“ The Secretary of the Treasury estimates that the receipts for the current fiscal year will aggregate $580,000,000 and the expenditures $500,000,000, leaving an excess of revenues over expenditures of $80,000,000. The present condition of the Treasury is one of undoubted strength. ”

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Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson…

“ The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution, I was duped into by the Secretary of the Treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret. ”

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